Asteroid Zoo Talk

Small shining Near to Twin start in middle of the screen

  • harshitbahl by harshitbahl

    I see small shinning thing in first frame what exactly it is? just bottom of the twin start one big other small in ~middle of shot

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  • CTidwell3 by CTidwell3

    The appear to be single frame artifacts, like cosmic ray strikes or electronic noise in the camera.

    Unlike the asteroid that is a bit up and to the right of those artifacts (moving up and to the right itself), the artifacts do not show up in frames 2 through 4. Sometimes they do, and you can tell that they are artifacts in that they will move in a non-linear pattern (often up, down & right, then left).

    Do you remember if this was a known asteroid (it would have told you when you submitted the image).

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